Former Odessa resident is promoted to WSP lieutenant

Tim Coley, son of former Lincoln County Sheriff John Coley and his wife Kathy of Davenport, was promoted June 1 to lieutenant with the Washington State Patrol.

Hired in 2000 after completing a degree in English at Washington State University, he was commissioned and served as a trooper in Ritzville beginning in March 2002. While working out of Ritzville, he was a resident of Odessa, where he also did substitute teaching on his days off. In July 2007, he was promoted to sergeant and assigned to Bellingham.

He served as a detective sergeant in Internal Affairs and at the WSP Academy in Shelton b...